On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:20:23 -0600 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:07:48 -0600 > Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:57:25 -0500 (EST) > > Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Collins Richey wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:51:45 -0500 > > > > Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I suppose we could continue this thread along the lines of > > > > > "Now that Gentoo has achieved respectability ...". > > > > > > > > > > > > > Respectability, but probably never full LSB compliance, as one > > > > of the detractors (strangely silent in recent weeks) would say. > > > > > > Just to stire the pot, and play devil's advocate, i will say that > > > it hasn't achiveved respectability in alot of groups. There are > > > some heated attacks on gentoo on the XFS mailign list, and i've > > > seen some snide remarks on LKML as well. > > > > > > > Just curious: do most of the snide remarks come from people who have > > never tried it? I'm sure that the XFS folks would be miffed by the > > fact that a few (but only a very few) gentoo developers have had > > heartburn from XFS (lengthy thread on this list last year). I'm > > curious what problem the LKML folks have with gentoo. > > > > Just as a courtesy to all of us, I'm forking this off to general. I > love a good interchange as well as the next, but some folks may prefer > to stay on technical questions and solutions on linux-users. > Extract from the other list. On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:56:11 -0400 Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Respectability, but probably never full LSB compliance, as one of > >the>detractors (strangely silent in recent weeks) would say. > Oh he's talking about me for the most part. Collins, bless his > pointy typing fingers, would get on here in the first weeks he was > using Gentoo and spout forth with the glory of the beast..... on and > on.... etc. I got a little tired of the 'new toy' rhetoric and > made a few comments to that effect. > > Nothing against gentoo... just it's user base.... <VBSEG> No, actually I was referring to DEP. He was practically foaming at the mouth about lack of LSB compliance. -- /\/\ ( CR ) Collins Richey \/\/ fly Independence Air - they run Linux _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub/Pause/Etc -> http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
